Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Otterbein University/ESL Listening and Speaking (Spring 2020)

This is an intermediate language development course, designed to improve the spoken English fluency, linguistic control, and listening comprehension of non-native speaking students. During the course, students will complete a Wikipedia assignment that asks them to find an article of interest to them in English and translate it into their first language. Students will then present on their work at the end of the semester.

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

To get started, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Week 2

 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link Erin sent you.
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
 * When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.

Week 3

 * Bring a computer or tablet to class on Tuesday. We will learn how to pick an article to translate into your first language.
 * Enter WP:GA into the Wikipedia search engine.
 * Choose a topic you are interested in and see if a cooresponding article is available in your first language. If there isn't one, you may choose this article for your assignment.
 * Add it as your assigned article on the course page.

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Supplementary trainings:


 * Sources and Citations
 * Sandboxes and Mainspace


 * Copy your article from the target-language Wikipedia into your sandbox.
 * Begin to translate your work.

Week 5

 * Be ready to discuss your progress translating your article.


 * Continue to translate your work.

Week 7

 * Discussion of fact-checking translated work, finding English-language sources.


 * Move sandbox articles into main space.
 * If you are expanding an existing article, it's time to add your revised translation (including English sources, when available). Copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article. Be sure to check the article's talk page and respond to suggestions from Wikipedians. Don't panic if your edits are removed or changed! Discuss it civilly on the article's talk page, and make a note of it for your report or presentation about your editing experience.
 * If you are creating a new article, do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow instruction on the &quot;Moving out of your sandbox&quot; handout.
 * In your first edit to the article namespace, include a link of the source article (i.e., the article you translated) in the &quot;edit summary&quot; before hitting &quot;save.&quot;
 * Copy the code to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, replacing es with the language code of the language you a translating from and replacing Page Title with the title of the source page.

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Handout:

Week 8
Each student will show their Wikipedia article to the class during a 5-minute presentation. The presentation will


 * use PowerPoint
 * contain an embedded link to the student's Wikipedia article
 * discuss what the student learned about:
 * Wikipedia in English and their first language
 * plagiarism and citing sources
 * translation

Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.